Re: Vacuum and Reindex hangs

Alan Hodgson wrote:
> On Thursday 15 January 2009, Jason Long <mailing(dot)list(at)supernovasoftware(dot)com>
> wrote:
>
>> *I am attempting to vacuum and reindex my database. It keeps timing
>> out. See commands and last part of output below. The vacuum or reindex
>> only takes a short time to complete normally because the database it
>> less than 50 mb. I have the query timeout set to 2 minutes, but I do
>> not know if this can affect vacuumdb or reindexdb and the time should
>> take much less than 2 minutes anyway.
>>
>
> Obviously it is affecting it and it is taking longer than 2 minutes
> regardless of how long you think it "should take". Set it higher for these
> tasks or buy a faster server.
>
>
A faster server.
Well the sever is plenty fast. It has 2 quad core 1600MHz FSB 3.0 GHz
Xeon 5472 CPUs and a very light workload.

My statement about the time is that it has never taken that long.
Ever. Not even close.

I will increase the setting and see if that works.